Abandoned

Right before turning off on a road to explore the Laughing Whitefish area there’s a post office for Deerton, Michigan. Right near that, there’s a house that’s seen better days. Every time I see houses like this (there are many along the roads in the U.P. when you get out away from the towns) it […]

Somewhere near Epoufette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, there’s an abandoned house on the shore of Lake Michigan. I’ve stopped a few times on trips back and forth, and this shot was taken shortly after getting my first camera (Canon EOS Rebel T3). I hadn’t really planned the shot at all, but really ended up liking the […]

While trying to take some shots of the old abandoned ore dock in Marquette’s lower harbor, I took this one of the old posts under the water in between the ore dock and the land. These are the times I wish I had an underwater camera to get some more interesting shots. Lake Superior is […]

One of the stops on a day long photography group outing I took part in was in Elyria, Ohio. The two things I remember about Elyria, were this waterfall with the crumbling infrastructure, and the house nearby that had (among many other things) a singing Big Mouth Billy Bass on the outside of their house […]

On one of my trips to Curtiss Park I happened to show up the same time that a Jake the Pirate doll was floating down the Saline River. I’d never heard of Jake before, but it seemed like a great opportunity for an artsier fartsier type of photo than I usually go for. 🙂 I […]

Sometimes the best shots are found randomly while you’re driving from one place to another. One one of my trips through the U.P. I drove past an old truck in someone’s front yard alongside the highway. I had to maneuver a bit to find an angle that didn’t show their house and driveway, but I […]

A good rule of thumb, if you’re a photographer or even a photography enthusiast, is to always have a camera with you. This photo was taken while visiting somewhere I hadn’t been before, and getting ready to get on board a boat to take the kids out swimming. I’d brought my camera primarily to take […]

A shot of some trees growing under what’s left of the Interurban Bridge at Roche De Boeuf park South/West from Toledo and Maumee. I’ve been trying to get some good sunset pictures at the location and haven’t really gotten what I’ve shot for yet, but I have gotten a few that I was happy with in […]

I’m not sure why, but I’m kind of fascinated with cemetery statues. Especially when they are older or are not being kept up well. In this case, I thought it was interesting that the shrub was growing over so much, it had been trimmed, but the people doing so weren’t really keeping it far enough […]